Announcements

Public Data Release 6

Project News • June 30th, 2021

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the sixth ZTF Public Data Release. ZTF is an optical time-domain survey covering the northern sky visible from Palomar Observatory.

Are We Missing Other Earths?

Project News • June 29th, 2021

Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars. New findings from a team that includes Elise Furlan and David Ciardi at Caltech/IPAC - NExScI suggest that Earth-sized worlds could be lurking undiscovered in binary star systems, hidden in the...

Public Release of Reduced Solar Data Products from the NEID Spectrograph

Project News • June 25th, 2021

The NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research (NN-EXPLORE) program announces the public release of reduced solar data products from the NEID spectrograph built by the Pennsylvania State University.

NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development

Project News • June 14th, 2021

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing the mission to move forward into Preliminary Design (known as Key Decision Point- B).

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision ‘Eyes’

Project News • June 9th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices will convert starlight into electrical signals, which will then be decoded into 300-megapixel images of large patches of the sky.

First official release of Data Reduction Pipeline for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

Project News • June 8th, 2021

The W. M. Keck Observatory and the KCWI team at Caltech are proud to announce the first official release of the Data Reduction Pipeline (DRP) for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI).

NASA’s Roman Mission to Probe Cosmic Secrets Using Exploding Stars

Project News • May 26th, 2021

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space.

Giant Planets Found in the Stellar Suburbs

Project News • May 26th, 2021

In the neighborhood that makes up our solar system, the giant planets—Jupiter and Saturn—reside in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the sun. Our planet Earth lives in an intermediate tropical zone well-suited to life. Planet hunters have long wondered: Is...

IPAC Names New Heads of Science Staff

IPAC News • May 25th, 2021

Dr. Vandana Desai, IRSA Science Lead and IPAC Scientist since 2007, has been appointed the new Head of Science Staff (HoSS) at IPAC. Dr. Phil Appleton, IPAC Scientist since 2001, will serve as Deputy HoSS.

Looking for Origins

Project News • May 13th, 2021

A proposed far-infrared telescope with key IPAC involvement and expertise is described in the leading space systems journal JATIS, including 20 technical articles on the design and capabilities of this breakthrough-enabling giant infrared space telescope.